Daniel Quinn's "Ishmaels"
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There are some books that you can just sit back and enjoy, just let the authors words wash over you and, most importantly, you don't have to think. And then there's Daniel Quinn's Ishmael.
The novel Ishmael, "an adventure of the mind and spirit," opens with a disillusioned and depressed man in search of a teacher, and not just any teacher. He wants someone to show him what life is all about. And so he …
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…No, it will be these ideas, the ideas that we have been challenged with, that will change things, and change minds. And so, the challenge of the gorilla is in our laps. If we want to see change, WE must spread the ideas, WE must invent ways for tribes to work, and WE must, to quote Ghandi, "be the change you seek." This is the lesson of the gorilla: this is the lesson of Ishmael.
…No, it will be these ideas, the ideas that we have been challenged with, that will change things, and change minds. And so, the challenge of the gorilla is in our laps. If we want to see change, WE must spread the ideas, WE must invent ways for tribes to work, and WE must, to quote Ghandi, "be the change you seek." This is the lesson of the gorilla: this is the lesson of Ishmael.
